Back There
Synopsis
Pierre Nivel, now the toop newsreader in France, was seventeen when he left Algeria during the war of independence. Along with the land of his childhood, he also left behind his neighbor and first love, Leila. Now, thirty years later, Leila needs Pierre’s help to save her daughter Amina, a spirited young woman, from marriage to the leader of one fundamentalist groups. And so, in spite of the danger, Pierre returns to Algiers, a city where he is now a stranger. His journey back in time will allow him to keep the promise made to Leila at the harbor gates thirty years earlier.
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Actors (19)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Alexandre Films
- Co-productions : STUDIOCANAL, TF1 Films Production
- Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution
- French distribution : BAC Films
Full credits (21)
- Executive Producer : Alexandre Arcady
- Screenwriters : Antoine Lacomblez, Alexandre Arcady
- Dialogue Writers : Antoine Lacomblez, Alexandre Arcady
- Director of Photography : Robert Alazraki
- Music Composer : Philippe Sarde
- Assistant Director : Alexandre Aja
- Editor : Joële Van Effenterre
- Sound Recordist : Dominique Levert
- Costume designer : Annie Périer
- Author of original work : René Bonnell
- Line Producer : Robert Benmussa
- Voice : Richard Berry
- Production Manager : Jean-Paul Battaggia
- Press Attachés (film) : Dominique Segall, François Hassan Guerrar
- Sound Editor : Jean Gargonne
- Production Designer : Tony Egry
- Casting : Pierre Amzallag
- French Distributor : Jean Labadie
- Sound Mixer : Jean-Paul Hurier
- Narrator : Richard Berry
- Still Photographer : Éric Caro
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Exile, History
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2000
- French release : 12/04/2000
- Runtime : 1 h 50 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 97.521
- Visa issue date : 27/03/2000
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby DTS
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Selections (2)
Delegations (1)
Richmond French Film Festival
United States, 2002
Director : Alexandre Arcady
Director : Alexandre Arcady
About
It certainly seems difficult to escape Algeria. French consciousness continues to be haunted by that country’s past. Alexandre Arcady, a man so clear and serene on the surface, is especially interested in all that is dark, secret, and threatening. As though fascinated by the “mystery” of his permanent uprooting in the summer of 1962, his latest film raises the anguishing issue of the cruel violence now shaking Algeria again after many years. This film represents a double return: Pierre (played by Antoine de Caunes) returns to the Algeria of today, and he returns to rummage through his memories of the past. He crosses a land of palpable threats, of fear, of government repression, and terrorist violence. He can’t stop running. His dash through a society quaking from the madness of a “cowards’ war” continues into the mountains of the rebellious Berber population. Where will his long flight end?
Benjamin Stora, historian (excerpt from press kit)
